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Plaque commemorating the popes buried in St. Peter's Basilica (their names in Latin and the year of their burial). This chronological list of popes of the Catholic Church corresponds to that given in the Annuario Pontificio under the heading "I Sommi Pontefici Romani" (The Roman Supreme Pontiffs), excluding those that are explicitly indicated as antipopes.
Papal name. A list of popes buried in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, minus Benedict XVI who was buried in St. Peter's on January of 2023. A papal name or pontificial name is the regnal name taken by a pope. Both the head of the Catholic Church, usually known as the pope, and the pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria (Coptic ...
Pope Gregory VII (r. 1073–1085) ordered that the title "pope" be reserved exclusively for the Bishop of Rome. Unknown manuscript from the 11th century. The term "pope" comes from the Latin "papa", and from the Greek πάππας [5] (pappas, which is an affectionate word for "father"). [6]
Plaque commemorating popes buried in St Peter's Basilica. This is a graphical list of the popes of the Catholic Church. While the term pope (Latin: Papa, 'Father') is used in several churches to denote their high spiritual leaders, in English usage, this title generally refers to the supreme head of the Catholic Church and of the Holy See.
Name Papacy began Notes 1 Pope Benedict XI: 1303 Beatified in 1736 by Pope Clement XII: 2 Pope Eugene III: 1145 Beatified in 1872 by Pope Pius IX: 3 Pope Gregory X: 1271 Beatified in 1713 by Pope Clement XI: 4 Pope Innocent V: 1276 Beatified in 1898 by Pope Leo XIII: 5 Pope Innocent XI: 1676 Beatified in 1956 by Pope Pius XII: 6 Pope Pius IX: 1846
In 2006, Benedict XVI renounced the title of "Patriarch of the West" (Patriarcha Occidentis). [1] In 2024, Pope Francis reinstated the title of "Patriarch of the West" (Patriarcha Occidentis), reversing the decision by the previous Pope Benedict XVI; the title reinstatement was meant to bring closer ties to the other Patriarchs in the Eastern Orthodox faith.
OCLC. 781198958. The Annuario Pontificio (Italian for Pontifical Yearbook) is the annual directory of the Holy See of the Catholic Church. It lists the popes in chronological order and all officials of the Holy See's departments. It also provides names and contact information for all cardinals and bishops, the dioceses (with statistics about ...
Saeculum obscurum. List of sexually active popes. Categories: Lists of clerics. Lists of monarchs in Europe. Lists of popes, primates, and patriarchs. Pope-related lists. Popes. Lists of Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops.